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I received this comment recently on a mailing list...

"Our experience over the years in the Caribbean is that solar panels work but only on boats which have minimal electrical requirements. Even the sailboats are running their engines to keep the refrigeration and freezer going once or twice a day. We had solar & wind on our sailboats so we do have lots of first hand experience with both.

We encounter sailboats with 4-6 panels and two wind generators who still run the diesel daily. That's a lot of space devoted to panels and a lot of noise 24/7 from the props."

So I'm looking for some real world experience with powering a boat's systems with solar & wind.

I'm planning on a little over 100 amps per day and was expecting to get most of that from 2 large panels and a wind gen. Not practical?